Month: December 2012

LA Times - The Southern California Institute of Architecture has a most unusual college campus: a quarter-mile-long former railroad freight depot near the Los Angeles River in downtown. Students skateboard inside the skinny structure, from end to end, passing exhibition halls, a robotics lab and studios packed with wooden models and computers. Now an ambitious …

Jonathan Bloom @ ABC News - The day after Christmas marks the first day of the African American celebration of Kwanzaa. A tribute to the African heritage of America's music drew a sold-out crowd in Sausalito. Read more.

Eternity @ MaxEternity.com - Narrated by Morgan Freeman, a new Youtube movie about the War on Drugs was launched on December 7th. The documentary, entitled "Breaking the Taboo," is representative of a "new global campaign to end the War on Drugs" says Beth Cook of Best Public Relations. This campaign, Cook says, has the support …

Eternity @ Max Eternity.com - Complete with a DJ and wall-to-wall, street-artists, slackers and hipsters, it was a refreshing surprise to attend the opening reception of Over The Edge. The show is curated by 1AM art gallery, located in the South of Market (SoMA) district of Downtown San Francisco, and indeed this art space bucks …

Chris Hedges @ Truthdig - Hurricane Sandy, if you are poor, is the Katrina of the North. It has exposed the nation’s fragile, dilapidated and shoddy infrastructure, one that crumbles under minimal stress. It has highlighted the inability of utility companies, as well as state and federal agencies, to cope with the looming environmental disasters …